CORRADO ABATE (IT 1977)

Artist Bio

Same matter, different look - Milano | New York City | Milano

traveling studio-modular box
fir wood an iron
cm. 240 x 300 x 300
Same matter, different look. Some fir trees.Than a floor during the design week in Milan. Than a box to ship my works from Italy. Now an house with my memories of a travel. Later a box for another shipment. Finally again a floor in a gallery for an ending exhibition.
The concept is a study-inhabitable and transportable cells, as an artist’s residence to  develop the exhibition’s works and the display set. All the sculpture / installation materials have been founded in the Environments Furniture’s boothset during the design week in Milan in April 2010. The artist has built a case by assembling the floor boards, reinforced with beams that serve as a support for the floor itself. New York is the goal of every artist, especially if emerging as a point of departure or arrival. The cox installation pilgrimage is a testament to how long and difficult this process. Once in New York the case became the living and working space where to build a few new works using local materials, like fabric of military tents in which the company creates its own padding to cover of the structure.The focus idea is to give new life to all the material that has been made available to the artist.



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Frottaging The World I'm travelling the U.S. with a photographer,who captures the reality in an ethereal way. As a sculptor I can't take away the object that I see, I'd have too many suitcase. So I need of a my own way, like a photographer I take my sketchbook and my pencil and I find to catch what my eyes can see trough the frottage. The sheets that I obteined are like a kind of picture, but with a more materialistic point of view reguarding the reality.

 

 

 

Manhole, 2010
frottage on paper
installation view

less than a inch,2010
oak wood and iron
four blades, 2010
oak wood and iron
"car-manhole / new orleans.", 2010 - frottage on paper
 

"same ol violence", 2010
oak wood and iron
cm. 93 x 18 x 18




"small brain damage",
2010 oak wood and iron
- cm. 119 x 15 x 10


cromlech, 2009
oak wood, iron and chemical reaction
Cm. 160 x 50 x 60
photo A.Pedroletti

8 pieces of Oak, the wisdom tree
8 is the number that represents the infinite
The 8 pieces of wood are contained by an iron plane,
an ellipse that represents the universal whole.
On this level signs of reactions between iron and some chemical elements,
overlap from  numerous oxidation, because the chemistry is the basis for existence. 
Therefore an infinite content; an oxymoron with the features of cromlech.